{"id":15683,"date":"2023-05-30T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2023-05-26T23:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:35:52","slug":"variety-lights-1950-fellini-lattuada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15683","title":{"rendered":"Variety Lights (1950, Fellini &#038; Lattuada)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overenthusiastic girl imposes herself on a shabby traveling variety show &#8211; this is Lily: Carla Del Poggio, who worked with every 1940&#8217;s Italian director I&#8217;ve heard of, plus G.W. Pabst, who apparently enjoyed a late Italian phase.  She gets hired against the wishes of star Giulietta Masina, and hijacks the show, enjoying her new popularity but getting too big for her britches almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/vlights2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We end up following the little-mustached company leader Checco: Peppino De Filippo would pair up with comic star Toto for a series of comedies (including a Fellini parody) and also appear in the cool-sounding <em>Atrocious Tales of Love and Death<\/em> with Mastroianni and Piccoli.  On the street after the company&#8217;s destruction, Checco meets a sharpshooter, an American trumpeter and a Brazilian singer, and recruits them to start a new show.  But Masina has her own solo gig, and Lily is too ambitious, joins another company behind his back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/vlights1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Codirector Lattuada made forty-some movies including the Criterion-coronated <em>Mafioso<\/em>.  It&#8217;s not clear whether this Fellini debut is the half in <em>8\u00c2\u00bd<\/em> since he co-directed, or if the half was a short film, and I&#8217;m not looking it up since I&#8217;m not a numerically-oriented film viewer.  Very good visual drama, too bad the sound was synched by fifth graders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overenthusiastic girl imposes herself on a shabby traveling variety show &#8211; this is Lily: Carla Del Poggio, who worked with every 1940&#8217;s Italian director I&#8217;ve heard of, plus G.W. Pabst, who apparently enjoyed a late Italian phase. She gets hired against the wishes of star Giulietta Masina, and hijacks the show, enjoying her new popularity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,330,225,3113,1308],"class_list":["post-15683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-federico-fellini","tag-italy","tag-lattuada","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15712,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}